Health

Days are getting shorter--time to put the garden to bed.  Here, our garden guru Anne Raver gives some tips about how to get ready for the next season, and what bulbs to plant for next spring--and what plants can help keep you going through winter.  Anne recommends planting some indoor narcissus and the gaudy red amaryllis. 

The University of Maryland is moving to the Big Ten Athletic Conference. Supporters say it will bring more revenue and perhaps save some sports teams that were slated to be discontinued. Critics say the decision was made too fast and too secretively. Tom Hall talks with sportswriter Mark Hyman about what the Big Ten move means for the Terps.

More than 700,000 Marylanders don't know where their next meal is coming from. We discuss the Maryland Food Bank’s latest efforts, including a collaboration with farmers and prison inmates to get fresh produce to those who need it.
Then, only one American team, the Baltimore Stallions, has ever won the Canadian Football League's version of the Super Bowl. We talk with Jim Speros, owner of Baltimore's short-lived, but championship team.

And J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Next to Normal" at the Vagabond Players.

Dr. Marty Makary, surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says if medical error were a disease, it would be the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. Dangerous doctors, unnecessary procedures, surgical slips and other medical mistakes injure or kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.

This is a week where food is in the spotlight.  But getting fed isn’t always easy—approximately 720,000 Marylanders don’t know where their next meal will come from. That’s called being “food insecure.”

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On Saturday at the Golden West Café in Hampden, several local musicians will donate their talents to raise money to support research into a cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease, or PKD.

Experts in modern medicine are constantly looking for ways to improve the human condition, frequently turning to genetic medicine for answers to some of the body’s most troublesome problems. Nathaniel Comfort, associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Department of the History of Medicine, takes us through the promises of medical genetics, the medical dimension of eugenics and the moral risks of seeking human perfection. He is the author of “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine.”  

We talk about the lawsuit between Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and examine how it's affecting the functioning of city government.

How many books can you fit into a library the size of a birdhouse? We ask Lesley Noll, library services coordinator at The Village Learning Place. They're planning to bring "little free libraries" to Charm City.